Word: maine
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...then be pardoned a little timely exultation in showing our appreciation of the efforts of the coaches and men who have brought about these results. College athletics are not the main tent; they are properly the side show of college life; but the side show is often very important, if only to set off and strengthen the main attractions. "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are," says the physician. Similarly one might say, "tell me how well you play at manly contests, and I will tell you how well you work intellectually...
...south wing of the Museum was begun in 1876, when an extension of 40 feet facing on Divinity avenue was built. An addition of 60 feet was made in 1888, and last year the wing was completed by building 100 feet more and connecting the new section with the main building as planned by Louis Agassiz in 1859. The completion of this wing doubles the space for exhibitions in the Peabody Museum, which is the anthropological section of the University Museum...
...reconstruction of the central part of the Gray Herbarium, which was begun in 1912, was completed this spring. This section of the building includes, besides several rooms for special purposes, the main hall, a room of considerable size, provided with two steel and glass galleries and surrounded by a triple row of steel herbarium cases. This room, well lighted and equipped with furnishings highly perfected for its purposes, contains also a bronze relief of Dr. Gray by Saint Gaudens, several busts, and many portraits of distinguished botanists...
Every undergraduate may obtain one free Yard and one Stadium ticket by applying at the Co-operative main store during the regular hours today or tomorrow. The Stadium ticket is only given on condition that the bearer marches with his class...
...likely to spend many hours in his rooms reading; the temptation to spend most of his time, after actually dissipating it, in an endless round of temporary interests is less; there is often a tendency among students, as President Wilson has said, to substitute the side-shows for the main tent. We would not lose "Harvard University," which is the definitive reply to the taunt of "Harvard indifference"; but it must be recognized that too little reading is done by most men. And without doubt a solid foundation of good reading is the best thing one can carry away from...